Entries from Manifest Tech Blog tagged with 'Apple'
The Verizon Wireless / Motorola Droid X - Yep, It's a Big Display
The difference is clear with the new Verizon Wireless Droid X from Motorola -- it's got a big, big display. For some, this is a great blessing, to view your apps and websites and messages more clearly, and to...
The Apple iPhone 4 is a Video Phone
It's June, and time for the next generation Apple iPhone 4. Some of the surprise may be missing this year, but it's fascinating to see how Apple has redefined this product -- originally as an iPod music phone, then...
Reading E-books on Your "iPad mini"
It's the weekend for the Apple iPad, and appropriately it looks like Steve Jobs has pulled another beautiful lust-inducing bunny out of his magic hat. Besides the legions of early adapters lined up outside stores, the iPad could make...
Cool Gadgets - From 3D TV to Smartphone Apps
I'm back at the Princeton Macintosh User Group (PMUG) on Tuesday evening to present "Cool Gadgets for 2010 – From 3D TV to Smartphone Apps." Come on down! The big push at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (see previous...
Augmented Reality In Mobile Apps
What's all this about "augmented reality" for mobile apps? Well, Virtual Reality (VR) has to do with being immersed in a synthetic 3D graphics environment, i.e., experienced in a head-mounted display -- whether for action games, or for serious research...
Windows Phone 7 Series - Beyond Apps to "Hubs"
Microsoft has previewed the next generation of its Windows Phone platform at the Mobile World Congress. Dubbed Windows Phone 7 Series, the first products are due for the holiday season at the end of 2010. Windows Phone 7 is a...
Google Maps Updated on Android - with Multi-Touch
Google Maps for Mobile has been updated on Android phones to version 3.4 (see Google blog post), with several interesting features: - Personalized suggestions - Suggests places that you've previously searched for on other Google services (remembered though your...
iPhone / Android Apps vs. Websites - The Weather Channel
Is there really a need for all these smartphone apps for current information, like news, sports, finance, and weather? After all these are plenty of websites that will provide this kind of info, and even let you configure customized listings....
Preview iPhone Apps from the Web
Apple has updated the App Store within iTunes to allow you to share information about an app through a standard Web browser. This certainly makes it easier for reviewers and even enthusiasts to pass along pointers to interesting apps...
The Apple iPad as a Quick-start Netbook
Well, the news is out -- the Apple iPad tablet has been revealed. There's a lot of instant reaction, but you'll have to wait some 3 months to actually buy the Wi-Fi version, and another month after that for the...
New Unlimited Voice and Data Plans from AT&T and Verizon Wireless
AT&T and Verizon Wireless have announced new pricing plans for unlimited voice and data service. After all, we want mobile access to email and Web, and the carriers are happy to encourage more use of their networks for such...
Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android
What's all this about Android? Well, Android is Google's version of the software for portable Internet devices, as first shown on the T-Mobile G1 smartphone a year ago (see previous post), and then updated to Android 2.0 with the recent...
Dexim iPhone / iPod Accessories for Power and Video
Apple's iPod and iPhone lines are great products, but we always want to do more with them, which has lead to a proliferation of third-product accessories, from docks to cases to chargers to external audio/video connectors. Dexim has introduced some...
Smartphone Market Update from Canalys
Even with all the excitement about new mobile phones, the smartphone market has been relatively stable over the past year, according to new Q3 figures from Canalys. Even with the difficult economy, smartphones are still outperforming the overall mobile phone...
Protecting Your iPod nano - Griffin iClear Cases
Apple's iPod designs are beautiful objects, particularly the iPod nano -- so clean and slim and graceful, and in happy vivid colors. It's almost a shame to actually use your nano, and risk getting it roughed up or scratched from...
Digital Content for Set-top and Handheld - Sony PS3 and PSPgo
The differences between today's console gaming systems can be reduced to sound bites: the Microsoft Xbox 360 is for hardcore gamers, the Nintendo Wii is for casual fun, and the Sony PlayStation 3 is for games and media. But the...
Apple Sees the Light: iPod nano Gets Camera, Speakers, Mic, FM Radio ... and Pedometer!
The power of the Apple iPod brand starts with the lust-inducing designs -- slim, sleek, smooth -- and simple. The iPod line has avoided the feature check-list competition of other players, as Apple has continued to reject even useful features...
Napster to iTunes - Apple's Domination in Music
Companies continuously struggle to understand their customers and deliver products to the market. Marketing, according to the American Marketing Association, is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers,...
Apple Updates Final Cut Studio
Apple has announced and released an updated version of Final Cut Studio, with new versions of Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, and Compressor 3.5 (see press release). The price has dropped by $300...
Smartphone Potpourri: Apple iPhone and Palm Pre
The new smartphones are here -- the new Apple iPhone and Palm Pre are finally ready for action. The new Apple iPhone 3G S provides up to 2X performance improvement, plus several long-awaited features found in competitive products, including a...
Apple iTunes Store Adds HD Movie Rental and Sales
Apple describes its iTunes Store as the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store, with over 250 million TV episodes purchased and over 33 million movies purchased and rented. Its catalog features over 10 million songs, over...
Apple 3rd Gen iPod Shuffle Loses Control
I'm running out of metaphors here, to describe the ever-shrinking size of tiny MP3 players. The original Apple iPod shuffle from 2005 was the exemplar of the "pack of gun" form factor (3.3 x 0.98 x 0.33 in., 0.78 oz.)....
Palm Pre Preview
The unveiling of the Palm Pre phone at CES in January was big news, for good reason -- It's an interesting combination of new ideas in the design of a connected PDA phone. Of course, the announcement was just...
AcoustiBuds - iPod Earbud Adapters
How comfortable are your earphones? The Apple iPod (and iPhone) earbuds are designed to hook just inside the ear. Other earphones use a design with a soft earpiece that fits into the ear canal. You may find one design to...
Innovelis BudFits - No More Ear Wedgies with iPod Earbuds
Sometimes it's just simple things that make sense, like the Innovelis BudFits -- over-the-ear adapters for Apple iPod and iPhone earbuds, available in several colors for around $9. Yes, the Apple earbuds work fine for casual listening. But, like...
Jan Ozer on Critical Skills for Streaming Producers
Jan Ozer certainly knows how to flog a topic to death! If you want to know about producing video for streaming, and especially understand the trade-offs in using streaming codecs, then Ozer has done an amazing amount of work to...
Apple Refreshes iPod Line
It's September -- and time for the annual refresh of the Apple iPod line, with new generations of the iPod nano and touch, tweaks to the iPod shuffle and classic, bright colors, and fun enhancements to iTunes 8 with...
"Ultraportable" Notebooks -- Sony VAIO 2008 Line
What’s an “ultraportable” notebook? I don’t mean a tiny pseudo-PC, but a real computer. A system designed to be stripped down and easy to carry, but without too many compromises … Stephen Manes wrote about looking for an ultraportable laptop...
Digital Copy: Movie "Downloads" from Blu-ray Disc
With the victory of the Blu-ray Disc format for high-def movies, the great hope of the movie studios and consumer electronics industry is that that consumers will rush out to buy HD movies on disc for viewing on their home...
Jan Ozer on Comparing Online Video Codecs at Streaming Media East
Now in its eleventh year, the Streaming Media East 2008 show is being held this week again at the Hilton New York. It's a three-day event, with preconference workshops on Monday and two days of conference sessions and exhibits....
Market Share for MP3 / Media Players
The NPD Group has released new market share numbers for portable MP3 / media players. The Apple iPod line continues to dominate the market at over 70%, and the SanDisk Sansa line remains a clear second at around 10%. Meanwhile,...
Apple iPod shuffle Drops Price, Adds Capacity
Apple has followed up on adding more storage for the high-end iPhone and iPod touch by also updating the small end of the iPod line. The iPod shuffle with 1 GB is now $49 (down from $79) , and there's...
More Memory for Apple iPod touch and iPhone
More memory for portable media players -- Apple has added a 32 GB model for the iPod touch, and a 16 GB model for the iPhone. The iPod touch line now has 3 models: 32 GB $499, 16...
The Apple iPhone is a Holiday Delight
The Apple iPhone has been a tremendous success in revitalizing the smartphone concept. The iPhone combines phone, PDA, and Web usage -- with the full iPod player experience (syncing content with iTunes), mobile phone, plus Wi-Fi wireless networking. While...
Live TV on Your Mobile Phone - Verizon V CAST Mobile TV
Did you think broadcast TV was going away, replaced by subscriptions to hundreds of channels of cable service, and then Internet TV? But broadcast is coming back, not only with digital TV, but also with like TV service to mobile...
Apple iPod nano -- Stunning
I'm not a mindless cheer-leader for all things Apple, but the new iPod nano makes me sound like one... The iPod nano really is a stunning device -- beautiful in the subdued colors, light but not fly-away, small but still...
Solid-State Camcorders -- Panasonic HDC-SD1
Continuing on the AVCHD theme (see related posts) ... Memory cards are the future for camcorders. Yes, this is obvious in a theoretical way, but after finishing the summer on a vacation trip with the Panasonic HDC-SD1 AVCHD camcorder that...
High-Performance Systems for High-Def Editing
Only a few years ago, we were struggling with configuring desktop systems to support editing DV video, with its then-huge demands for real-time video capture, streaming to hard disk, and video-rate decompression and processing. Today, even mainstream consumer systems don't...
New Apple iPods -- Pricing Comparisons
As you may have heard, Apple has refreshed its Apple iPod line for the second consecutive September. Apple iPods 07: iPod shuffle, nano, classic, touch -- iPhone - See my updated Portable Media Players Gallery for details on each...
Apple iLife '08 - iMovie and iDVD
Apple has released Apple iLife '08, with major new version of iPhoto and a "completely reinvented" iMovie. The complete suite includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD, and the new .Mac Web Gallery. It's included with all new Macs, or available...
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